Specifications

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3. Take the .zip file that you downloaded and use the “Extract all” command of
your unzip program to extract the files onto your player.
Note: The entire contents of the .zip file should be extracted directly to the root of
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your player’s drive. Do not try to create a separate directory on your player for the
Rockbox files! The .zip file already contains the internal structure that Rockbox needs.
If the contents of the .zip file are extracted correctly, you will have a directory called
.rockbox, which contains all the files needed by Rockbox, in the main directory of your
player’s drive.
Installing the bootloader
In order to install the bootloader, you will need to download the following files:
• An original firmware (OF) from http://forums.sandisk.com/t5/Fuze/Sansa-Fuze-
Firmware-Update-01-02-31-amp-02-03-33/td-p/139175
• The bootloader: http://download.rockbox.org/bootloader/sandisk-sansa/fuze/bootloader-
fuze.sansa
• The version of mkamsboot for your operating system from http://download.rockbox.
org/bootloader/sandisk-sansa/mkamsboot/
2.2.3. Bootloader installation from Windows
1. Create a folder called “rbinstall” on your desktop, and then extract the OF, the
bootloader and mkamsboot into it.
2. Open a new command prompt, and navigate to the “rbinstall” folder.
3. Run mkamsboot.exe, passing the name of the OF and bootloader files that you
downloaded, in addition to a name for the output file.
Code
mkamsboot.exe fuzea.bin bootloader-fuze.sansa patched.bin
If mkamsboot.exe does not report success, then retry or abort.
4. Copy the output file (“patched.bin” in the example given above) to the root of
the device and rename it to the same name as the OF file you downloaded earlier
(“fuzea.bin” above).
The Rockbox manual (version rUnversioned directory-150516) Sansa Fuze